In the modern era, the following are the most useful strategies available to emergency
physicians to expedite timely validation of a provisional diagnosis of disseminated
tuberculosis(TB) in a febrile patient with a normal chest X-ray:-
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Publication History
Published online: October 15, 2018
Accepted:
October 15,
2018
Received:
October 11,
2018
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